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[cotc2001]

Anyone know the answer to this.

Because of variants (colour & size) each variant is assigned it's own SKU - and because of the amount of options per size per colour some of the SKU's can get incredibly long (up to 12 digits) - is there anyway to truncuate the displayed SKU's down to the first 5 digits on emails, order history, invoices etc. as thats what we only ever use anyway?

[balinor]

Just use the smarty truncate feature, similar to the way the short description is truncated in the cart...

{$products[prod_num].product|truncate:30:"...":true}

Just do the same for whatever you want to shorten

[cotc2001]

K and the next question is then when adding variants even if i have set the parent SKU as just numbers i.e 01743 in the SKU of varaints it still prefixs the numbers with the word SKU - any idea on how to stop it doing that?

[cotc2001]

bump - anyone got any clue on this one?

[geckoday]

Originally Posted by cotc2001

K and the next question is then when adding variants even if i have set the parent SKU as just numbers i.e 01743 in the SKU of varaints it still prefixs the numbers with the word SKU - any idea on how to stop it doing that?

It doesn't appear to do this in later unmodified versions (4.0.14 & up). The code that generates the SKU for the variants is in modules/Product_Options/func.php in func_rebuild_variants. At least in later versions there is a comment "Get unique SKU" just before the code that generates the SKU. You can tweak that code to do whatever you want.